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Getting Stiffed By Syracuse University

 Michelle Kretzschmar of Do It Yourself College Rankings and I will be holding our second free college webinar on at 6 p.m. PDT on June 22. Hundreds attended our first webinar and we are hoping for another great turnout as we share tips to help you make college more affordable. To learn more, visit my [...]

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Where Harvard Law Students Come From

Michelle Kretzschmar of Do It Yourself College Rankings and I will be holding a series of free college webinars this summer and the first one will take place at 7 p.m. EDT on June 2. You can learn more here about the college webinar that will focus on shrinking the cost of college. I hope [...]

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A Lousy Admission Offer From Cornell

Every Friday I answer questions over at The College Solution’s Facebook page. Posting questions on Friday via my Facebook page is  the best way to get my attention. Lots of people email me, but I just can’t answer all the queries, which makes me feel guilty. My husband calls it the Catholic-school-girl guilt that I [...]

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25 Colleges with the Best Professors

Where do the best college professors teach? This is an important question, particularly when you consider that traditional college professors are disappearing. Less than one out of three teachers on college campuses today are tenured or on the tenured track. Most college students today are being taught primarily by graduate students and part-time faculty. (See [...]

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Can College Rankings Giant Keep Schools from Cheating?

The steady trickle of colleges and universities that have admitted to fudging the figures that they send to U.S. News & World Report could end up changing the college rankings submission rules. In an interview published today in Inside Higher Ed, Brian Kelly, the editor and chief content officer at U.S. News, said that the [...]

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Surprise: Where Harvard Law Students Got Their Undergrad Degrees

Today I’m passing along a fascinating list that comes from Harvard Law School. The list you see below includes the 261 colleges and universities where members of the Class of 2013 law school students come from. Michelle Kretzschmur, the creator of Do-It-Yourself College Rankings sent me the link to the list because she knows how [...]

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